61.   Economy shrinks for fourth straight quarter.

62.   Earlier Thursday, the Economics Ministry said the economy shrank from quarter-to-quarter for the second time in six months.

63.   Hit by Asian financial turmoil that began last year, Singapore is among countries that expect their economies to shrink before a turnaround comes.

64.   In October, the Central Bank announced that the Barbadian economy would shrink this year, after eight consecutive years of growth.

65.   Independent analysts expect the economy to shrink yet again in the fiscal year that just began.

66.   It added that the economy likely shrank slightly in comparison with the first three months of last year.

67.   Its economy has been shrinking annually since the collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc deprived it of major trading partners.

68.   Japan announced Tuesday that its economy will likely shrink for a second straight year this year.

69.   Japan says economy will shrink for second straight year.

70.   Last week, the government announced that the economy had shrunk for the fifth straight quarter.